Dirty Santa

This Christmas, I've had a record breaking THREE games of dirty santa. At the first one, I got the "Bourne Ultimatum" on DVD. I was pretty excited. In fact, I almost bought that movie and brought it to the party as my present for dirty santa.

Quick sidenote: I actually ended up buying and bringing the new Garth Brooks greatest hits cd/dvd set. I did this because Lyndsay said she really wanted it for Christmas. I figured I would seize the opportunity and kill two birds with one stone. Unfortunately, when the present was opened during the dirty santa game, she decided she was less interested in Garth Brooks...and more interested in Shrek 3. So now we have Shrek 3, too.

I played Dirty Santa again a few days later with the folks from work at the company christmas party, which was actually at our house. We had a 10 dollar limit, which makes it a lot harder to work with...but I gotta say...I was pretty impressed by the creativity. I was also pretty impressed by the UNcreativity. Three people stopped at the Starbucks in my front yard and bought giftcards. In my small office, 3 people meant about 20% of the people playing. So needless to say, Starbucks cashed in in a big way from our company Christmas party.

Anyway, back to the party. The best present for 10 bucks award went to the folks who brought the jumbo sized remote. I'm sure you've seen it...it's the remote with the huge buttons...the thing itself is so big you could just about flip it over and use it for a cookie sheet. The folks who brought it prefaced opening it with, "Don't get your hopes up...but...my grandpa does love his!"

I wasn't going to fight over the remote, so I opted instead for a wall calendar from my favorite TV show, "The Office"...it now hangs proudly in my office at work.

That was pretty much it for my dirty santa winnings. At the third dirty santa game, I ended up with a glass serving bowl with pink roses on it. I'm sure it was a nice bowl (the ladies tried to tell me it was), but I ended up giving it away after the game was over. One of my friends insisted if I wore it as a hat, it would keep the government from being able to read my mind. I thought about keeping it for that very reason, but I decided the government probably needs to be able to harness the massive processing power and intelligence capabilities of my mind...so as a service to them...I gave the bowl away.

Oh well...two out of three ain't bad. Merry Christmas!